Now we are into Week 7 of our BYOD journey we have ironed out many teething issues and have learnt a lot from each other along the way (I'm arguing who has learnt the most, me or the kids). However as usual with most technologies interacting with each other there are a few challenging issues we are yet to overcome - currently looking for assistance/advice so feel free to lend a voice.
- Google Drive App VS Drive via Google Chrome
- Drive App supports easy editing, easy sharing, easy viewing etc
- Drive App does not support text to speak (built in iPad function) or spell check
- Drive via Chrome supports text to speak & spell check
- Drive via Chrome is a bit trickier to share and edit docs especially when collaborating live.
- Blogger App and via Browser
- App doesn't allow for easy addition and resizing of images. (Must change default size in settings)
- Browser often freezes when commenting (keyboard freezes) & deletes comment drafts.
- iPad and Ultranet
- There seems to be a few issues with editing content using the iPad. This should be solved shortly thou as we had no problem doing the same last year using school iPads.
- Sharing content (teacher-students & student-student)
- Ultranet has been great for teacher uploading and student downloading.
- Hapara dashboard is a godsend for keeping track or students google docs. Some choose to write in their books this week - I forgot how time consuming marking these is!
- How to share photos, videos, projects etc
- Emailing can get overwhelming to manage.
- Yes we could upload to drive - but are they still editable then? & are all file formats compatible?
- Thinking a class dropbox account might be the go here. That way we can retrieve when required etc. Any thoughts on this?
- Anyone used Showbie App? Looks like this could work also and allows for ongoing commenting (text and sound) to be linked to each file. Appears to be only between teacher and student however.
Off to do some more goggling ! "Google three before me" -
Thanks Kate @ Bamford for my new favourite saying.
